Recent content by Father Cool

Exactly, it is wholly disproportionate to the danger potential. I also fly RC helicopters and I assure you that bad boy poses a real danger, the Mavic Air may as well be made of jelly and soft furnishings in comparison however the rules seem to read as pretty much the same.

Well hopefully the A3 category gets a re-write as currently the wording is so ambiguous as to almost be meaningless. With no definition as to what is the 'area of operation' and what recreational or industrial areas are and what marks their boundaries there are going to be some very confused...

Apologies, I wasn't aware that the wording had changed to put the mini in the A1 catergory. I have just read up again and found the change. As you were then.

Not true. The mini's weight category is over 250g as the max weight is taken with the propeller guards on and those take it over 250g so it sits in the same catergory as the air.

Ok so I weighed the Mavic Air and it comes in at 430g without prop guards and 472g with the guards. That puts it in the A1 transitional category. I can thus fly it the same as the mini. However the original question now stands. Can I no longer fly it after december 2022 or does it become an A3...

I think its a case of do your best and then have a word with anyone in your area to get them on board as 'involved'

Yes I would think that sensible however it says This means that there should not be anyone that is not part of the flight in any part of the area that the aircraft is planned to be flown, and people should be at least 50m away from the ‘boundary’ of the flying area. That implies that you need...

That's a bit ambiguous, it in reality means you need to be 50m from uninvolved persons however it implies that you need to cordon off an area inside another area with a 50m buffer. That is unworkable in practice.

Cheers for that, it seems the MA is an A3 drone so that clears that up. However the question still stands now to how far away is 'no uninvolved people within area of flight?'

What does that mean though? You have to take online training? Is the training and test just the registration test that I have done already with the CAA? And what distance is area of flight?

Well I think that stinks tbh. People have paid good money for equipment and should be able to fly if away from others. maybe the rules will change by then?

Hi all, I am a bit worried as I have recently bought a Mavic Air (original not 2) to get into drone recording at a casual level and am in no position to be upgrading to a £1000 drone any time soon. I have been reading the new rules on Heliguy's site and this graphic concerns me somewhat. I...